People are always emotional animals. If you stay in one place for a long time, you will always feel reluctant. Some people's choices depend largely on whether their hometown can support their dreams. There is a princess of Ceylon royal family who has been living in China for historical reasons. If she returns to China, she will inherit a rich legacy, but she chose to refuse and even admitted that China is her hometown. What happened?
Hometown was originally a place where people settled and lived, but for various reasons, there will always be people who have the choice to leave their hometown. Many people have illusions about their lives, thinking that they may be celebrities who have moved here. However, if they really climb this relationship, many people will be proud and even forget themselves. However, there is a woman in southern Fujian, China, who is a down-to-earth aristocratic descendant. As a China native, she sleeps on the street every day. Behind her ordinary life, the hidden identity turned out to be an overseas royal princess.
Her name is Xu E, and her surname is not Xu, but Xu Shi. This surname is not only unfamiliar to everyone, but also not recorded in Hundred Family Names, indicating that her surname appeared after the compilation of Hundred Family Names, but it is impossible to see whether she is from China. When I was a child, many people would ask her curiously why she had this special surname, but she couldn't say why. When she grows up, she gets married and has children like ordinary people. She runs a restaurant in Gu Xiang, Quanzhou. Her husband works in "Shanghai Traffic Management" and her children go to school. The family's life is orderly.
/kloc-one day in 0/966, Liu Zhicheng found a stone slab hidden in the grass in qingquanshan, Quanzhou, which was very special. As a museum worker, his intuition tells him that this is not an ordinary thing. So he tore open the grass and carefully observed the tombstone with the words "Shijiakeng" written on it. Realizing that the situation was special, he immediately called his colleagues to confirm. Finally, under their repeated observation, he found that this was probably the tomb of Prince Ceylon.
But why is Prince Ceylon buried in Quanzhou, China? This can be traced back to 1429 Ming Dynasty. At that time, Zheng He went to the Western Ocean and exchanged cultural experiences with many overseas countries, one of which was Ceylon, which is now Sri Lanka. When Zheng He returned to China, the king sent Prince Ceylon to accompany him, hoping that he could increase his knowledge and learn from China as a great country. As a friendly messenger, Zheng He naturally won't refuse. He also enthusiastically brought Prince Ceylon to China, where he not only met the emperor and gave gifts to each other, but also got the opportunity to visit China, which is vast and rich in resources, and saw the customs of China.
After traveling more than half of China, he took the porcelain given to him by the emperor and the articles bought from the people, and prepared to go home by boat from Quanzhou. But just then, a bad news came. His country suffered a coup, and as the father of the king, he was killed by the usurper's cousin. None of his brothers and sisters survived. Ceylon is not his family's world now. Going back at this time is a trap. The cruel usurper has laid a tight encirclement waiting for him to go back and kill him together.
In desperation, Prince Ceylon had to stay in China. With the emperor's permission, he found him a wife and let them live together in Quanzhou. From then on, Prince Ceylon began to live a low-key life carefully. He was afraid that he was too high-profile, that assassins from Ceylon would find him easily, that his plan to go abroad would be dashed at once, and that he would never return to Ceylon to recapture his country.
In order to hide himself better, he also changed his name. After consulting with his wife, he decided to change his surname to "Shi" in the future. As the first word of his name, he still won't give up, so he takes it as his surname, hoping that future generations can follow it. But Xu E's surname is Xu Shi. Why? It turned out that a descendant of Prince Ceylon did not have a son, so the daughter could only find a man to adopt in their home, and the child would use his father's surname Xu to erase all traces of his "family", so he simply took the surname "Xu", so that the name Xu E appeared later.
However, their family has always been very low-key, never revealing their identity to the outside world, and will take the initiative to hide it. Xu E, who didn't know this until he grew up, obeyed the wishes of his ancestors and never mentioned to others that he was a descendant of Prince Ceylon, and no one else knew about it.
But Prince Ceylon's past was discovered by the world in Xu E's generation. The archaeological team removed his tombstone on the grounds of protection and wanted to dig up the tomb of Prince Ceylon for archaeological research. Xu E saw that his ancestral grave would be lost, and he could no longer hide calmly. In order to protect the graves of her ancestors, she disclosed her identity to the archaeological team and told them that she was a descendant of Prince Ceylon and was not allowed to destroy these graves. The archaeologist looking for the descendants of Prince Ceylon was overjoyed, but he still checked in many ways and finally proved that she was not lying.
People in Sri Lanka are very happy to learn that their country's prince has descendants. They immediately invited Xu E to visit Sri Lanka and invited her to stay. Xu E was treated by the princess there. People wanted to take her home, but she refused their kindness and chose to go back to China to be an ordinary China person. After all, China is her hometown.
Later, Xu E, who returned to China, only went back to Sri Lanka occasionally, and people in her hometown still treated her warmly. She also planted an "evergreen tree of Sino-Sri Lanka friendship" in Sri Lanka, which grew on the same land as other presidents and saplings planted in Sri Lanka. Finally, because of her special status, she became a "China-Sri Lankan non-governmental ambassador". However, all this did not affect her return to Quanzhou to continue her life. She still lives the same life as her family. As an ordinary citizen of China, she created a beautiful life with her own hands.
Xu E said that her ancestors chose to live in China and buried all this in their hearts. They should also follow the wishes of their ancestors and guard their families here. She also found a lot of "aristocratic children" living abroad, and she wanted to stay in Quanzhou and find someone when they came back to worship their ancestors. Xu E's mentality is not shared by many people, because she lives in China with her familiar grandparents and has feelings for China's hometown. Here, she left a deep feeling that she could not give up.
She didn't choose to leave China because she was a royal princess of Ceylon, and she didn't refuse to go back to Sri Lanka to inherit her inheritance because she already loved China in her bones. As she said, this is her hometown. Therefore, facing the splendor of princess status, she was unmoved, because she knew that not only the blood of Prince Ceylon, but also the blood of China people flowed in her body, and this land was the hometown that nourished her.
"A person is unfamiliar in a foreign land and misses his loved ones on holidays." The homesickness of human beings will always occur at the moment when they leave their hometown. Xu E grew up in China, and China is her home that she will never give up. Her roots are deeply rooted here, which is the embodiment of patriotic feelings buried in these decades. This is better than many other people who forget to go home as soon as they go abroad. She set an example and is worth learning.